I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark..

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it..

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than….

People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, ….

Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would….

I think we should really discourage this sort of empathic engagement when it comes to making moral decisions. I think we should focus on something li….

For the most part, people use "empathy" to mean everything good. For instance, many medical schools have courses in empathy. But if you look at what ….

I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-….

And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data..

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... S….

I think Americans are always going to care more about Americans than about Mexicans..

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part t….

My book is going to be called Against Empathy, which may give you a feeling for where my argument is going to go. Whenever I talk about this, I have ….

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of ….

Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico..

The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth ….